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Default CAT-5 / Phone / Modem Cable Questions

Hello,

Can some one throw out the original post on this issue, please? I mustuv got
a bit overzealous on cleaning up after a trip, and missed it. Thanks.

"Clifford Keele" wrote in message
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Your modem wire and your network Cat 5 wire will never see eachother.

One will
not weaken the other. The only weak link you'll have is a dial up modem.

Think
Cable modem or DSL, dialup is a thing of the past.



Just use standard phone wire for the connection to the wall (assuming you
are using a standard 56K modem). The twisted pair does little to augment
standard analog/voice connectons (modem).

If you use a cable modem, and are creative enough, you can use wires
1,2,3, & 6 for the network, and wires 4&5 (middle two) for the phone
(assuming you are only running 10baseT or 100baseT). You really only
need all 8 wires for 1000 baseT. And there is no sense in purchasing a
1000baseT net if you connect it to a less than 1 MBit cable modem.

----- CK 00000